DETROIT, MI -- Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday in an interview with a Detroit radio station that he feels his constituents' pain as they try to recover from historic rainfall and flooding that wreaked havoc in the metro area.

And Snyder didn't appear to rule out seeking federal assistance if the State of Michigan and its communities in the most need reach the "threshold the federal government requires" before that entity steps in.

"The work is actually actively going on," said Snyder, when asked by Beckmann if federal assistance is an option.

Snyder wasn't asked by Beckmann, known for his conservative views, if Michigan should increase spending to improve the state's roads and transportation-related infrastructure like bridges and freeway pumping stations.

Snyder said he isn't aware of any permanent structural problems involved with Metro Detroit's state-operated infrastructure, but remains concerned about road beds, potential sinkholes and hazardous water runoff into local waterways.

"I don’t want to speculate on that because we want to get the facts," Snyder said. "People come up with lots of theories, but you have to put it in context. This was a record amount of water in a pretty short period of time, so again, even normal pumps have pumping capacity issues.

"So this was a storm that hadn’t happened in over 100 years in terms of the amount of rain and potentially losing some of the power to these facilities."